'Local' in the Bible

Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, the sons of Heth.

Abraham bowed before the local people

Rebekah also told herself, "Heth's daughters are making me tired of living. If Jacob marries one of Heth's daughters, and she turns out to be just like these other local women, what kind of life would there be left for me?"

Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, "Don't marry a wife from the local Canaanite women.

So he returned to Judah, and said, “I cannot find her; also the local men said, ‘There was no prostitute around here.’”